The Specialist in Seattle Real Estate
Many people have heard of Walkscore.com, and use it to tout the “Walk-ability” of a neighborhood. It’s a bit of a fine line for agents to talk about this. “Walking distance” to or from a property is prohibited in marketing materials by Federal Fair Housing Laws based on non-discrimination requirements about disability. But without being …
Both Zillow and Trulia offer some great tools for consumers. And they are mostly accessible without needing to register and get on a mailing list that clutters up your inbox. The one I like the most from Trulia is their Local Info Heat Maps. These maps help someone get a visual and geographical representation of …
A few days ago I was invited by the NWMLS to participate in a focus group discussion with Supra to talk about the upcoming iPhone App and hardware dongle that they will releasing soon. There were about a dozen agents who participated and some great feedback was generated for Supra to use. As most people …
TUESDAY SEPTEMBER 8, 2009 If you’ve been to a barcamp you know this already. Barcamps are are turning conferences and learning events from organized conferences into unreal unconferences, with amazing results! A long time ago I was an educator and learned that people’s peak learning ability happens when they engage themselves in a topic or …
Zillow has introduced new Home Values and the Mortgage Rate widgets. These are very cool and useful for agents and mortgage brokers and add a great feature to their sites. (see Seattle Home Values widget on the right sidebar of this blog) They have a very savvy co-branding feature option that allows agents to have …